Word: iconoclasms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prizes, first place in the Humanities went to Anthony E. Farnham 3G for a study entiled "The Concept of 'Feyned Love' in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde." Larry A. Sieden-top 2G won first prize in Social Sciences with his "Jean Bodin, Sovereignty, and the State: An Essay in Iconoclasm." "The Atomic Bomb and the Surrender of Japan: The Impact of Science on Politics," by Harold Fruchtbaum 1G, took first place in the Natural Sciences division...
Religious Socialism. In the chaos of postwar Germany, Tillich and a group of his fellow intellectuals gathered in Berlin's cafés to discuss the positive possibilities behind the ecstatic iconoclasm of Nietzsche, and to discover new meanings for religion in the great Danish Christian existentialist, Soren Kierkegaard. They saw the uncertainty and ferment around them as a time of kairos-a Greek word for the Scriptural "fullness of time" in which the eternal could penetrate the temporal order. Their prescription for the world was "Religious Socialism." Without a religious foundation, they insisted, "no planned society could avoid...
Leaving the picture, I came momentarily to my senses. "A thorough-going loser," I sneered in a burst of slashing iconoclasm...
...days of yore, when sacred cows were sizzled on their sticks, are gone and dead. The Lampoon hesitates between offensive iconoclasm and dull despair. If the reader is burdened with the journal's sadism, think of the staff which produces it. as the poet observed upon emerging from the Game Cock one November evening in the 18th century...
...Clark's insights and suggestions into the philosophy of the nude are the most provocative part of the book to the general reader, the scope of Clark's analysis remains overwhelming, as well as the pleasant mixture of scholarship and iconoclasm in his tone. He writes with a simple eloquence that hides the labor of the file which must lurk in his carefully wrought phrases and comparisons. Perhaps his eloquence has the unhappy effect of making one think that the book communicates more than it does; to "explain" the Greeks, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Renoir, Picasso forces a certain glibness, even what...